Is it time for open-toed shoes yet?

I don’t see it as a Rule, exactly, that one is Not Allowed to wear open-toed shoes in winter.  You should be guided by the weather, and not by the calendar.  But it usually amounts to the same thing:

Since we are Not Allowed to wear stockings with open-toed shoes, if it’s too cold to forgo stockings, it’s too cold for open-toed shoes. 

Not Exceptions:

So-called “sandal-foot” stockings: Sorry, they exist purely to trick you into buying more stockings than you need, especially since these will run more easily than your proper reinforced-toe stockings.

Open-toed stockings:  Ha! Now I’m trying to trick you.  If you are seriously considering stooping to this level just to get a jump on wearing your spring shoes, you need to stop and reexamine your priorities.

Shivering in bare legs: Nothing looks more tasteless than a woman who ought to be wearing stockings but isn’t.  Again, no shoes are that cute—just wait until it’s warmer!

Opaque tights: I guess if you are “making a fashion statement,” and the stockings are truly opaque, and completely matte…  But it still would just look like you’re trying to cheat.

Patience—it’s one of the pillars of Style.

A Millennial Orgasm is a Well-Researched Orgasm

Read all about It.

Research for your pleasure, or his, compiled by data from OrgasmSurvey.com (yes, you can take it!).

[via FastCompany]

Anti-Monogamists are Dumb, says Science

Promiscuity-pushers love touting science, biology, and evolution in order to degrade the bounds of propriety and the moral fiber of whatever shreds of society are left.

Well, they’re idiots, and you can read the research that says so. (Social Psychology Quarterly is for paying subscribers only, but the head scientist posted the article on his website.)

From the Telegraph:

Dr Kanazawa claims that the correlation between intelligence and monogamy in men has its origins in evolutionary development.

Sexual exclusivity is an “evolutionary novel” quality that would have been of little benefit to early man, who was programmed to be promiscuous, he argues.

The modern world no longer confers such an evolutionary advantage to men who have several sexual partners - but it is only intelligent men are able to shed the psychological baggage of their species and adopt new modes of behaviour.

In other words, men with more big-brain power can overcome the caveman urges of their little brains.

So the next time someone tells you that monogamy is a “hang-up,” you can wish them good luck ditching their “psychological baggage.”